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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Opinion | ‘The Moratorium Saved Us. It Really Did.’ – The New York Times

Lakia Higbee thinks she got Covid-19 at the Amazon warehouse near Cleveland where she worked as a picker, filling orders for bleach and cat food and anything else customers wanted. She was sent home in November 2020. She was 43 and in decent health, but suddenly she felt she was breathing through a pillow.

Ms. Higbee slowly recovered, but it was “a month of no money,” she told me. She hadn’t worked long enough at Amazon to qualify for paid time off, and her two adult daughters, who live with her, had lost their jobs too. Also in her home were Ms. Higbee’s 16-year-old son and her two granddaughters, 6 and 3, who call her Mom.

Ms. Higbee clocked back in at Amazon in December. Her rent was $950 a month, not bad, she thought, for a four-bedroom house, even if the windows were so thin and drafty that the monthly heating bill could reach $500. During the first months of winter, Ms. Higbee managed to stay current on her rent but often paid late, incurring a $47.50 fee.

Then February arrived, and Ms. Higbee’s life began to unravel. Out of the blue, she started having seizures. She’d convulse while on Zoom with her psychiatrist or while playing with her granddaughters. That month, after learning that a man who had assaulted her had been released from prison, Ms. Higbee began having panic attacks and drifted into a depression. She was her family’s breadwinner, but the seizures and anxiety kept her from returning to work.

When Ms. Higbee missed March’s rent payment, her property management company served her with an eviction notice — her first, she told me. She was terrified but had heard that the government wasn’t allowing evictions like hers to move forward during the pandemic. Ms. Higbee filled out the paperwork, claiming sanctuary.

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Ms. Higbee with her son, Edward.
Credit…Sylvia Jarrus for The New York Times
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A window in Ms. Higbee’s house.
Credit…Sylvia Jarrus for The New York Times

On Sept. 4, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control issued a national eviction moratorium that lasted for 331 days. During this time, people who fell behind in rent because of financial hardship stemming from the pandemic, and who met conditions that included doing their best to make partial rent payments and obtain government assistance, were shielded from displacement. If the moratorium wasn’t in place, Ms. Higbee, her children and her grandchildren would have probably lost the home they have lived in for the past three years.

A MORTE da NATUREZA – para a Mercadoria do Ouro e do Diamante – A Arte da lavagem verde por mercadores de luxo e a morte da natureza e dos povos indígenas … em suas próprias palavras … atualizado em 2021

Barbara Crane Navarro

Montagem de fotos: série “Pas de Cartier” – Barbara Crane Navarro – com anúncio da Cartier, fotode João Laet de garimpo em território indígena de João Laet e anel de ouro Cartier® LOVE

Na “Utopia” de Thomas More, publicada em 1516, ouro e pedras preciosas não têm valor. Na verdade, eles têm o peso do sangue, da escravidão e da loucura humana …

“Sua verdadeira natureza # 1 – Fondation Cartier”
fotos: Fundação Cartier – Luc Boegly / garimpo de ouro – João Laet / foto de Yanomami, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela e fotomontagem – Barbara Crane Navarro

A Arte da Manipulação:
O conceito corporativo de patrocínio artístico foi perfeitamente descrito por Hans Haacke em “Libre-Echange“, o livro de Pierre Bourdieu e Hans Haacke, publicado pela Editions du Seuil / les presses du Réel em 1994, que cito um trecho aqui: “Mas seria subestimar a Bienal…

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PF combate funcionamento de garimpos ilegais na terra indígena Munduruku, no Pará. — Ecoamazônia

Barbara Crane Navarro

Polícia Federal deflagra a Operação Bezerro de Ouro III, em Itaituba/PA, para dar prosseguimento a investigações que apuram funcionamento de garimpos ilegais em terras indígenas. Itaituba/PA –A Polícia Federal (PF) deflagrou hoje (9/9) a Operação Bezerro de Ouro III. Essa é a terceira fase da Operação Bezerro de Ouro que tem por objetivo reprimiro…

PF combate funcionamento de garimpos ilegais na terra indígena Munduruku, no Pará. — Ecoamazônia

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Fears for Brazil’s and Peru’s most isolated tribes if illegal road isn’t stopped — Ecoamazônia

Barbara Crane Navarro

NGOs take legal action against an almost 100 km route cleared through the Amazon The first time I visited Colonia Angamos, a border-post-turned-tiny-town in the far western Amazon, was in a hydroplane that put down on the River Yaquerana. On one side of the water stood Angamos and Peru, on the other Brazil. Riode…

Fears for Brazil’s and Peru’s most isolated tribes if illegal road isn’t stopped — Ecoamazônia

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Some Marley news, Part 2: Cedella Marley kicks off new women’s football initiative with international friendly between Jamaica and Costa Rica

Petchary's Blog

I get excited about football. OurReggae Girlzare doing very well, although they don’t get the support they deserve. So, enormous gratitude goes out to Cedella Marley, who has been championing the Jamaica women’s team for years and is not only a huge morale-booster but also helping to raise the profile of the team. I was thrilled to see that our awesome striker, Khadija “Bunny” Shaw, is making waves in the UK now, as a prominent goalscorer for the Women’s Super League team, Manchester City. Having scored in her debut match, Bunny scored a hat-trickjust last week in the Women’s FA Cup. (By the way, the leaders in the Women’s Super League happen to be Arsenal Women – I am a fanatical Arsenal supporter).

Striker Khadija “Bunny” Shaw

But I digress. Let me tell you about the Inaugural “Football Is Freedom” fundraising match between the national women’s teams…

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Some Marley news, Part 1: Inaugural Rita Marley Scholarships awarded

Petchary's Blog

This is about hope, and support.

Did you know that Rita, the widow of Bob Marley and Founder and Chair of the eponymous Foundation, was once a nurse? Now, three tertiary students of nursing have received scholarships from her Rita Marley Foundation, in honor of Rita’s 75th birthday on July 25.

The recipients are Esther Williams, who is currently in her fourth year of nursing school at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona campus; Toni-Ann Howard, who is in her sophomore year at the UWI School of Nursing (UWISON) program at Knox Community College in Manchester; and Karesha Dixon, who has just entered her first year at Excelsior Community College in Kingston.

Karesha Dixon, one of the awardees. (Photo: Rita Marley Foundation)

Rita Marley and her daughter Cedella sent encouraging messages to the awardees. “I congratulate these young women on their achievements thus far, and I am…

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Why is it taking so long to investigate the cutting of a Rastafarian’s dreadlocks by the police?

Petchary's Blog

The alleged cutting of a Rastafarian woman’s dreadlocks by the police on July 22, 2021 caused a huge wave of outrage on Jamaican social media. I wrote about the case here for Global Voices.

Well, once the storm of outrage had died down – and other news items and new “things to be shocked about” replaced it (the normal behavior of Jamaican netizens)… What happened? It has gone rather quiet. The recently formed Advocates Network has something to say about this. One hopes that the media will follow up on this, also. Meanwhile, we wait…and wait. However, inequity (perceived or otherwise) persists.

Citizens Demand Accountability!

Kingston, Jamaica. September 29, 2021: It is OUTRAGEOUS that after more than two months, the allegation of a police officer cutting off the locks of Ms. Nzinga King on July 22, 2021 while she was in custody is still unresolved. Neither her family…

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For unvaccinated, reinfection by SARS-CoV-2 is likely, study finds | YaleNews

Now a team of scientists led by faculty at Yale School of Public Health and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte have an answer: Strong protection following natural infection is short-lived.

Reinfection can reasonably happen in three months or less,” said Jeffrey Townsend, the Elihu Professor of Biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health and the study’s lead author. “Therefore, those who have been naturally infected should get vaccinated. Previous infection alone can offer very little long-term protection against subsequent infections.”

The study, published in the journal The Lancet Microbe, is the first to determine the likelihood of reinfection following natural infection and without vaccination.

Source: For unvaccinated, reinfection by SARS-CoV-2 is likely, study finds | YaleNews

Calidad humana o rostros bonitos

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Isaías Ayala Alipio, es un destacado especialista moreliano en materias contable y fiscal. Hace tiempo, fue presidente de la Asociación Michoacana de Contadores Públicos, Colegio Profesional, y más tarde de la Federación Nacional de la Asociación Mexicana de Colegios de Contadores Públicos, A. C. Actualmente, es presidente del consejo editorial de la revista Cuestión, que publica dicha agrupación a nivel nacional.

Hace algunas semanas, tuvo la gentileza de invitarme a escribir un artículo en la revista Cuestión. Colaboré con el artículo Calidad humana o rostros bonitos, que a continuación me permito reproducir. Para mí, fue un honor participar en el número 102 de la revista, impresa durante el pasado mes de septiembre de 2021.

A continuación, mi artículo Calidad humana o rostros bonitos:

Ha sido gradual, casi sin darnos cuenta, hasta que ahora, cuando necesitamos y exigimos…

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United Airlines CEO: Insisting on vaccines “right thing to do” – BBC News

Around 300 of the airline’s 67,000 US based staff are yet to comply with the strict policy, after an initial deadline of 27 September.

Vaccine hesitancy has been a hugely divisive issue in the US but President Biden recently made it easier for big companies to take a tougher line.

CEO Scott Kirby says United’s strict policy is “about saving lives”.

He adds that “when I retire someday, hopefully long in the future, I will look back at this and it will be one of the proudest moments of my career that we’ve made the tough decision, but the right decision to require vaccines.”

Source: United Airlines CEO: Insisting on vaccines “right thing to do” – BBC News